Podcast

Jennifer Aaker - The Psychology of Giving

Research shows that spending time and money on others makes people happy—so why don't more people donate to or volunteer for nonprofits? In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Stanford marketing professor Jennifer Aaker offers insights into the phenomenon. She then turns those insights into lessons in nonprofit management that organizations can use to create compelling ways for more people to give financially and personally to the causes they care about.

Social Innovations

Millennials MoveOn

By Lee Bruno

To propel young folks to the polls, a political organization mixed Web 2.0 tools with social science savvy.

Nonprofits

The Best Thing We Can Do for Nonprofits–and Ourselves

By Kelly Kleiman

We must actively withhold support when we see the government acting in a way counter to our ideals and its own.

Podcast

Diana McLain Smith - How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength

The key to success in any team or enterprise is to develop good working relationships. In this talk, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, consultant Diana McLain Smith, author of Divide and Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength, shows how those who care about performance and relationships can simultaneously nurture both. She offers tips for seeing work relationships in new ways, and practical suggestions for enhancing them.

Social Innovations

Charter Schools and Unions: Good Ideas in Conflict?

By Kelly Kleiman

Unionizing charter-school teachers bring to light the ever-present income inequity that takes place within the nonprofit sector.

Podcast

Randy Wang - Education Through Community Participation

If you had to design a system to improve the quality of education in distant underprivileged schools, where would you begin? You might first step away from the problem and ask: What is the simplest "system" that could work in the real world? In this audio interview with host Sheela Sethuraman, Randy Wang describes his motivation to create Digital StudyHall, a collection of mundane technologies that have dramatically improved long distance education. He also talks about his progress and goals.

Nonprofits

Data Mining from The Collaboration Prize Applicants

By Jean Butzen

Collaboration Prize competition entries prove a rich resource for nonprofit mergers.

Nonprofits

Generation Y and the Perils of Milli Vanilli Leadership

By Rosetta Thurman 1

Generation Y leaders benefit from acting their age.

Social Innovations

Shades of Green

By Andrew J. Hoffman 3

Social networking tools reveal that there is an intricate web of relationships between business and environmentalists, which if developed could benefit the environmental movement.

Nonprofits

You’re Never Too Young to Change the World

By Rosetta Thurman

High school kids restore faith in the next generation of social change.